Peter, I checked out this idea too, and yes, that's IFTTT. I too had difficulty in getting Google to get me there as there's a lot of clutter in the results, even if you have prior awareness of the term "if this then that" which is a programming term.
After researching this solution, which is quite brilliant, I had to discard it completely because the ifttt.com premise is that you give *them* your Gmail credentials (username and password). I understand how and why - that's not my grief. But if you read the privacy and terms at ifttt.com, you're *not* going to get a warm feeling about this. Sure, they need your credentials to do what they do, but they really have absolutely no control over who has access to your personal information (no matter how carefully they word it), as they use 3rd-parties who sign agreements to protect your information, and blah-blah-blah-blah. Their Terms of Use includes a full-blown "hold harmless" clause that exempts them from any responsibility whatsoever. I don't know about you or anyone else here, but you have to understand that if you have any personal information in your Gmail archive which might (or might not) include passwords or account names, family information, notices from your bank or credit card companies then surely there's a nasty potential for harm if someone were to hack ifttt.com or any of it's 3rd-party providers and swipe a bunch of credentials. And let's get real here...Bank of America, AOL, Amazon, American Express, Capital One, Paypal, eBay (it's owner) and lots of other high-profile, high IT budget firms get hit every year with various security breaches. What makes us believe for a second that a startup with no real money, buying services from 3rd-party hosting providers from whom they have no guarantees, can protect you from anything, much less from being hacked at any one of their Achilles laden service providers? Simple...they can't protect you, and they will get hacked - period. It's not a matter of *if*, but *when* as they say. If you think I am full of it here, then I'd like to sell you a new service where I'll monitor your parent's safe-deposit box for you, to make sure nobody takes anything from it. All you have to do is get me a key and onto the bank's list of allowed signatures. That's not asking too much, is it? So for me, this isn't a solution at all. What would be a solution is if somebody wrote a VBS or Power Shell (script) which I could run on my own home system, which would log into my Gmail account and scrub my sent items folder for new messages, and then forwarded these to whatever addresses I want. Now that's a solution I can trust a whole lot better. ifttt.com is a great tool, run by folks who have no responsibility to me. Sorry, but that's not how I do business. On Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:59:11 AM UTC-4, Peter Bowers wrote: > > A couple questions: > > (1) By IFTT do you mean IFTTT? Or are there other services out there and > Mr. Google is failing me? > (2) Any chance you could document your filter rule and your IFTTT rule in > detail - it's not working for me... > > -Peter > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
